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Definitions: Tea Bag |
Tea BagNoun1. A measured amount of tea in a bag for an individual serving of tea. 2. Small paper bag holding a measure of tea. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Slang | A washroom where sex takes place, the act of sucking the testicles, a type of fellatio. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A tea bag is a small bag that holds tea leaves, either the amount needed to brew a single cup of tea, or a larger one, of which one or two are used for a whole teapot. The tea is brewed still inside the bag, making it easier to dispose of without a tea strainer.
The tea bag was accidentally invented by American tea importer Thomas Sullivan in 1908. He had sent samples of his tea out to customers packaged in silk bags. His customers put the entire bags into the pot, thinking that was what Sullivan had intended.
Tea bags were commercially produced in America by the 1920s. The silk was replaced by gauze and later paper. Tea bags took off in the UK by the 1960s - today in the UK 85% of tea consumed is brewed using a tea bag.
A well-produced tea bag, with enough space for the tea to infuse properly, is a convenient alternative to loose leaves. However, tea bags are often let down by the poor quality of the tea - small, dusty leaves from many different sources which tend to release tannin more quickly, making the tea taste harsh.
Traditionally, tea bags have been square or rectangular in shape. More recently circular and pyramidal bags have come on the market, and are now quite common. These are often claimed by the manufacturers to improve the quality of the brew, although it is doubtful whether they make a significant difference.
Many people think that loose leaves brew a superior cup of tea, and believe that the ritual of leaves is part of the experience of your tea. Many blends of tea are not available in tea bags, and with loose leaves you are free to experiment with your own creations.
The concept of premeasured portions to be infused in disposable bags has also been applied to coffee, although this has not achieved such wide market penetration (contrasting sharply with the fate of instant tea vs instant coffee).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tea bag."
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Screenplays | Usually with a cup of hot water and a tea bag. (Marnie; writing credit: Winston Graham; Jay Presson Allen) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tea bag | 192 |
tea bag folding | 110 |
tea bag holder | 19 |
tea bag favor | 9 |
bath tea bag | 5 |
lipton tea bag | 5 |
green tea bag | 4 |
eye tea bag | 3 |
coral calcium tea bag | 2 |
herbal tea bag | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "tea bag"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qeskë me çaj. (various references) | |
Arabic | كيس شاي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чай в торбичка-филтър. (various references) | |
Czech | sáèek s èajem, porcovaný èaj. (various references) | |
French | sachet de thé. (various references) | |
German | Teebeutel. (various references) | |
Greek | φακελάκι τσάι. (various references) | |
Hungarian | filteres tea. (various references) | |
Italian | bustina di tè. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eatay agbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | chá em saquinho. (various references) | |
Russian | порция чая в пакетике. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kesica za čaj. (various references) | |
Swedish | tepåse. (various references) | |
Thai | ถุงใส่ใบชา (เป็นถุงกระ"าษ หรือกระ"าษกรอง). (various references) | |
Turkish | çay poşeti. (various references) | |
Ukranian | мішечок із заваркою чаю. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-g-t" | |
-1 letter: abate, agate, begat. | |
-2 letters: abet, bate, beat, beta, gate, geta. | |
-3 letters: aba, aga, age, ate, baa, bag, bat, beg, bet, eat, eta, gab, gae, gat, get, tab, tae, tag, tea, teg. | |
-4 letters: aa, ab, ae, ag, at, ba, be, et, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-g-t" | |
+2 letters: ablegate, abnegate, abrogate, agitable, bregmata, cabotage, glabrate, sabotage. | |
+3 letters: ablegates, abnegated, abnegates, abnegator, abrogated, abrogates, arbitrage, backstage, bagatelle, cabotages, carpetbag, fatigable, getatable, grantable, sabotaged, sabotages, stageable. | |
+4 letters: abnegating, abnegation, abnegators, abreacting, acerbating, algebraist, arbitraged, arbitrager, arbitrages, bagatelles, baronetage, carpetbags, interabang, targetable. | |
+5 letters: abnegations, algebraists, alphabeting, arbitragers, arbitrageur, baronetages, battlewagon, bearbaiting, elaborating, flabbergast, interabangs, megaloblast, talebearing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 61 42 61 67 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01100001 00100000 01000010 01100001 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e a   B a g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 0061 0042 0061 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5471672366773 |
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